IT Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager II

Job Duration: 6 + Months Contract

Interview Method: Phone then In Person

Address: Boise Idaho USA 83705

Top Five Must Haves:

· Ability to develop and maintain a project plan including dependencies, resource constraints, and level of effort

· Able to proactively anticipate slippages based on the monitoring of the plan

· Gathers, tracks and monitors issues and risks and confirms that appropriate mitigation plans are in place

· Escalates where appropriate

· Records and monitors project actual costs vs. project budget

Job Description:

· Develops, refines, validates and manages project plans to ensure on time and on budget delivery of major technology initiatives across the enterprise.

· Responsible for utilizing project management methods, standards, project integration as well as the coordination of all internal and external resources required to complete assigned projects.

· Provides timely and concise communications to functional leadership regarding project status and pending issues; analyzes processes and makes recommendations for optimizing resources and product delivery.

· Develops project plans based on specifications provided by the Portfolio Management staff and manages effective execution of the initiatives.

· Builds consensus among multiple process leads relative to project scope, task execution, staffing and issue resolution.

· Brokers services within IBS and Client’s vendors on behalf of the business area represented.

· Provides overall financial direction for the projects to manage the development of budgets, controls and measurements to monitor project progress.

· Identifies potential risks within the project; proactively manages issues.

· Participates in identifying project costs, resource allocation, project schedule changes and issue escalation.

· Frequently interacts with IBS staff including business area management, portfolio managers, vendors, consultants and other contractors.

· Must be willing to travel up to 35% of the time.

· Performs related duties as assigned.

· Good interpersonal skills

· Excellent relationship building skills

· Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing

· Good group presentation skills.

· Good analytical and problem-solving skills

· Good mathematical skills

· Excellent organizational skills

· Excellent leadership skills

· Good staff development skills

· Knowledge of computers to operative effectively with computer hardware such as general mainframe, midrange, network and desktop technologies; computer software includes application development lifecycle, MS Office Suite, Outlook

Top Five Must Haves:

· Ability to develop and maintain a project plan including dependencies, resource constraints, and level of effort

· Able to proactively anticipate slippages based on the monitoring of the plan

· Gathers, tracks and monitors issues and risks and confirms that appropriate mitigation plans are in place

· Escalates where appropriate

· Records and monitors project actual costs vs. project budget

· Knowledge
of computers to operative effectively with computer hardware such as
general mainframe, midrange, network and desktop technologies; computer
software includes application development lifecycle, MS Office Suite,
Outlook

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.